My older sister was the star child. Growing up like that was awful. She was the smart one I was the other one. (I actually scored top 25% in my high school so I was a good student I just wasn't top 10%) My sister took an engineering major I took animation. In my sister's third year of college she had a complete breakdown. She switched majors without telling the family. She even had the gall to tell us she got an offer to work on the James Webb space telescope. I thought she was a fucking rocket scientist. We were all ready to see the first child graduate college, but we just found a million excuses and the next day when the newspaper had a list of graduates guess who's name didn't show up.
So my big sis was labeled the liar and the shame. And my mother looked at me and said "I guess you're the rock now." I can't describe a time when I was angrier at my family. My entire life my parents told me to be more like my sister and in one minute I get "well I guess you're the favorite now." And my sister she acted so high and mighty about her NASA job making me feel like shit and it never fucking existed. I don't know how to describe what I felt at that moment.
Me and my sister have this weird relationship where we're very close to each other because we understand how hard it was growing up with great expectation. At the same time we also resent each other because we were raised competing to be the better.
Do you think it's right for parents to have favorites?
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Absolutely not.
My older sister was the star child. Growing up like that was awful. She was the smart one I was the other one. (I actually scored top 25% in my high school so I was a good student I just wasn't top 10%) My sister took an engineering major I took animation. In my sister's third year of college she had a complete breakdown. She switched majors without telling the family. She even had the gall to tell us she got an offer to work on the James Webb space telescope. I thought she was a fucking rocket scientist. We were all ready to see the first child graduate college, but we just found a million excuses and the next day when the newspaper had a list of graduates guess who's name didn't show up.
So my big sis was labeled the liar and the shame. And my mother looked at me and said "I guess you're the rock now." I can't describe a time when I was angrier at my family. My entire life my parents told me to be more like my sister and in one minute I get "well I guess you're the favorite now." And my sister she acted so high and mighty about her NASA job making me feel like shit and it never fucking existed. I don't know how to describe what I felt at that moment.
Me and my sister have this weird relationship where we're very close to each other because we understand how hard it was growing up with great expectation. At the same time we also resent each other because we were raised competing to be the better.